Sunday August 3rd marked the first service in our soft-launch series that will lead us to our public launch on September 21st 2008. We will be having services on August 3rd, 10th, 24th and September 7th and 14th before we publicly launch THE CITY community church!
We wanted to gain an idea for how the room would feel, how long our setup might take and some of the other logistics involved in transforming a school cafeteria into a cool space for a church. And mind you this is not your average school cafeteria!
Baker School has a theatrical stage in their cafeteria, and high 50ft. ceilings which will make the space incredible once our team gets done with it.
Over 30 people showed up to our first installment of THE CITY's soft-launch and we had a great time celebrating communion, worship and the first message in a series on Prayer: HOW NOT TO PRAY... Part two will be Prayer: How Jesus taught us, Part three is Prayer: Persistent Prayer.
We are so excited to finally be meeting in our space and can't wait to invite our neighbors, co-workers and friends to join us for church.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
THE CITY's NEW HOME Part 2
With our new home at Baker school in place we are now able to order equipment to run our services. Audio, Video, Hospitality, Children's ministry, and nursery items all need to be selected, ordered, organized and prepared for setup on a weekly basis.
One of the things that is such a God-thing is that the school allowed us to use 200 of their chairs which saves us roughly $10,000. The administration team also provided us with space to store our gear on a weekly basis which means that we are able to do without the customary trailer many church-plants have to deal with. Our church-plant in Round Rock had to spend $17,000 on their two trailers and that was after receiving a $6,000 credit for giving an old trailer to Church On Wheels. A normal and necessary expense for a mobile church, but thanks to God not one we will have to incur.
We are so blessed to be located right in the heart of the city and are excited to see what God will do through this new church. Tomorrow, July 27th we will be in the building for the first time to pray in the different rooms and to strategize setup, signage and traffic flow for our services.
Next Sunday, August 3rd we will be soft-launching our services. I am excited to see what it will be like to run our first actual service in Downtown Austin. Pray for us please!
One of the things that is such a God-thing is that the school allowed us to use 200 of their chairs which saves us roughly $10,000. The administration team also provided us with space to store our gear on a weekly basis which means that we are able to do without the customary trailer many church-plants have to deal with. Our church-plant in Round Rock had to spend $17,000 on their two trailers and that was after receiving a $6,000 credit for giving an old trailer to Church On Wheels. A normal and necessary expense for a mobile church, but thanks to God not one we will have to incur.
We are so blessed to be located right in the heart of the city and are excited to see what God will do through this new church. Tomorrow, July 27th we will be in the building for the first time to pray in the different rooms and to strategize setup, signage and traffic flow for our services.
Next Sunday, August 3rd we will be soft-launching our services. I am excited to see what it will be like to run our first actual service in Downtown Austin. Pray for us please!
Monday, July 21, 2008
THE CITY's NEW HOME Part 1
Thank you so much to all of you who have been praying for our church. We just confirmed a location for our new church.
We will be meeting on Sunday mornings at Baker School, which is located at 39th and Guadalupe in Central Austin. The location could not be any better and the facilities are wonderful.The school was built in 1911 and is a great historical building. It no longer houses a school but instead is home to the District Offices of Austin ISD.
Connecting at Central Christian Church
Thank you to all of you guys at Central. It was great to see your smiling faces and to reconnect with so many of you. Many of you came up to tell me that you are praying for us - I so appreciate it! I believe more than ever that we are in desperate need for the prayers of God's people so He can be glorified through our work in Austin.
Thank you so much to Chris and Dennis for hosting us the whole time - your house and family felt like home and we love you! Garrett - when are you coming out to check out UT?
Please keep on praying for us as we are entering the launch phase of church-planting!
Thank you so much to Chris and Dennis for hosting us the whole time - your house and family felt like home and we love you! Garrett - when are you coming out to check out UT?
Please keep on praying for us as we are entering the launch phase of church-planting!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
We are coming to Central tonight and tomorrow!
Matthias, Andrea, Robby & Crystal will all be at the services this weekend!! Matthias will share an update in the Gallery. We would love to see you all there.
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